Isaiah 2 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ And man hath bowed himself down, and man hath been debased: therefore forgive them not.

² 0 Enter thou into the rock, and hide thee in the pit from the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty.

³ 1 The lofty eyes of man are humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be made to stoop: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

⁴ 2 Because the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and highminded, and upon every one that is arrogant, and he shall be humbled.

⁵ 3 And upon all the tall and lofty cedars of Libanus, and upon all the oaks of Basan.

⁶ 4 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the elevated hills.

⁷ 5 And upon every high tower, and every fenced wall.

⁸ 6 And upon all the ships of Tharsis, and upon all that is fair to behold.

⁹ 7 And the loftiness of men shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be humbled, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

¹⁰ 8 And idols shall be utterly destroyed.

¹¹ 9 And they shall go into the holes of rocks, and into the caves of the earth from the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall rise up to strike the earth.

¹² 0 In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which he had made for himself to adore, moles and bats.

¹³ 1 nd he shall go into the clefts of rocks, and into the holes of stones from the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall rise up to strike the earth.

¹⁴ 2 Cease ye therefore from the man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for he is reputed high.

¹⁵ FOR behold the sovereign the Lord of hosts shall take away from Jerusalem, and from Juda the valiant and the strong, the whole strength of bread, and the whole strength of water.

¹⁶ The strong man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the cunning man, and the ancient.

¹⁷ The captain over fifty, and the honourable in countenance, and the counsellor, and the architect, and the skilful in eloquent speech.

¹⁸ And I will give children to be their princes, and the effeminate shall rule over them.

¹⁹ And the people shall rush one upon another, and every man against his neighbour: the child shall make it tumult against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

²⁰ For a man shall take hold or his brother, one of the house of his father, saying: Thou hast a garment, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand.

²¹ In that day he shall answer, saying: I am no healer, and in my house there is no bread, nor clothing: make me not ruler of the people.

²² For Jerusalem is ruined, and Juda is fallen: because their tongue, and their devices are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his majesty.